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Concept to Production: An Architectural Design Firms Jump to Virtualization Andrew Schilling and Jimmy Rotella Andrew Schilling Chief Infrastructure Officer CannonDesign aschilling@cannondesign.com Jimmy Rotella Digital Practice

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Concept to Production: An Architectural Design Firm’s Jump to Virtualization

Andrew Schilling and Jimmy Rotella

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Andrew Schilling

Chief Infrastructure Officer CannonDesign aschilling@cannondesign.com

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Jimmy Rotella

Digital Practice Director CannonDesign jrotella@cannondesign.com @jrotella

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What We Do

CannonDesign is an integrated global design firm that unites a dynamic team of architects, engineers, strategists, futurists, researchers, and industry specialists driven by a singular goal — to help solve our client's’ and society’s greatest challenges.

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Original Virtual Desktop Designs

Version 1 - Standard VDI (2008)

2 vCPU @
140GB hard drive

space

8GB RAM
vSGA software

graphics accelerations Version 2 - GPU VDI (2013)

2 vCPU @
150GB hard drive space
12GB RAM
vSGA hardware graphics

GPU acceleration Version 3 - CHUM VDI (2014)

2 vCPU @
180GB hard drive space
24GB RAM
vDGA passthrough GPU

graphics acceleration

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ur JOURNEY

through virtualization begins here.

S7174: An Architectural Design Firm’s Journey Through Virtual GPU Technology for Global Collaboration

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Partnerships make life on the cutting edge much more manageable.

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Application Deployment Guide

Essentials of getting up and

running with VMware and Nvidia GRID

Basic installation to sizing your

environment for complex graphics applications

Step by step instructions

http://www.nvidia.com/content/grid/pdf/g rid-vgpu-deployment-guide.pdf

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benchmarks

RFO Benchmark Cinebench Holomark PCmark Taylor Swift Test

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Virtual Desktop Profiles

Knowledge Workers

2 vCPU @ 2.6 GHz
256GB hard drive
8GB RAM
512mb vGPU
16 users per blade

Designers

8 vCPU @ 2.6 GHz
512GB hard drive
48GB RAM
1GB vGPU
6 users per blade

Renderers

12 vCPU @ 2.6GHz
512GB hard drive
48GB RAM
4GB vGPU
2 users per blade

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Storage

SSD > spindle

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Load Balancing

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Hot/Cold Aisles Cooling Chimneys

Cooling

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Network Infrastructure

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host patching driver patching

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zero client vs thin client

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designed for designers

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physical vs virtual

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peripherals can be a challenge

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Where the heck are my CUDA Cores?

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Render Farm

Reused “Quad Workstations” More CPU (920 Cores) CUDA support for IRAY (92GB of GPU Memory)

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tweaks

memory and cpu reservation roaming profiles golden image

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migration plans

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future plans

4k Display Iray Support VMware Horizon 7 version 7.1 (Blast)

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Questions?

jrotella@cannondesign.com aschilling@cannondesign.com